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THE LONDON JOURNALS. ItAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE - MORNING PAPERS, mif 4y 1826... ETRE widßs.] Our artiCle fiona the' city conveys some intelligence upon . subjects Which, during the , supervening` per- Ossifies arising from the miseries - of the manufactur ing districts, we had 'almost forgetten—braneli banks 4ont the Bank of England, and chartered companies private adventurers in the banking line. This Tat, ter project seems to be given up--at least it has made no advances towards completion ; but the former is said to have been duly matured, and to be upon the eve of execution. We are rather surprised at this, and still think that some unexpected difficulties may occur. As the issues, however, of private banks are eantracted—as their small notes are withdrawn from circulation, Ministers may wish to fill up the vacuum by an efflux of the paper of the Bank of England , and are therefore said to have pressed that corporation ;''to establish its country branches, as likely to promote trade, and to set the many adventurous barks of pri vate credit, now grounded, afloat again. To advert to more recent topics, the subscription for the dis tressed manufacturers augments : we have received : 'letters complaining that this and that person, speci fying names, have not subscribed: we abstain, at" least for the present, and perhaps wholly, from press ing these points ; charity, like mercy, as described in the play, must be unconstrained. A famine is like a qurdiagration ; one flies naturally and instinctively to offer assistance ; but it is a very moderate way of go verning a country, to suffer the most ingenious part of 'the population to fall into distress, from incapacity : to secure a market for their industry, and then to call . upon the humane to offer relief, for charity and humanity's sake.'• This subscription aids the im becility of Ministers, just as much as it succours the wants of those who have the misfortune to be con signed to their government. However, we cannot separate the two causes now. May the subscription, therefore, succeed. But who will be the largest geiners by the measure in progress—Ministers or- the manufacturers ? Ministers will gain in aid of their ..declining finances, 200,0001. and upwards of duty, if the whole of the bonded corn be brought to market. How rnifeh will the manufacturers receive from the : subscription ? We shall be glad if the sum subscribed amount to half that sum ; and how much will half that sum be per head, or per mouth, to those who are now dying with hunger, or exposing themselves to yet More sudden death, by violating the laws ? We pub lish these reflections to show that nothing but an en ,.lightened system ofpolicy can really secure the people against want. We have received, along with a journal of Hayti, dated the .I.2th of March, the copy of a document, purporting to be a commercial treaty between France and that. Republic, which is said to. circulate among the Haytian merchants, but which their Government has either had firmness not to ratify, or does not poS-, , seis courage to avow. It is dated Paris, Oct. 13, 1825, and has all the charaCteristics of being dictated by the same.suprerne authority which created an indes pendent State by a Royal. Ordinance of manumission. This precious conviction consists of 21 articles, many of which 'contain the stipulations usual in such cases ; while others apPear to be the real badges of slavery, land must place ,Hayti in a very disadvantageous situ :ation in treating.with other commercial nations. It is declared, in the first article, for instance, that his, Most Christian Majesty, having it in his power to di .vest himself of his rights of exclusive trade with Hayti in favour of other nations, was not prepared to allow this manifestation of his intentions to diminish the rights which be was pleased to reserve to himself and his: successorafor the advantage of French commerce. The right 'which he thus reserved he had resolved to exercise, by stipulating that in all cases a deduction of half the duties of export and import imposed upon the trade of the most favoured nations shall be inade in favour of that of France. The second article deter- Agnes what 'exports and imports. shell be so distin guished. The . imports so favothed must be of the growth or manufacture of France, imported in French or Haytian vessels with certificates of origin ; and the exports must be the produce of the soil and industry of Hayti, carried under the same flags to France.— Titus the Black Republic (if it ratifies this article) must for ever divest itself of the power of conciliating other commercial states, by granting' them equal privileges • with " those given to Frenchmen. It QM never show but half the favour to other nations which it shows to France. Where it imposes duties for the purpose of revenue, it must make a sacrifice of half their amount in favour of French • trade. Thus, what . would only be a moderate tax upon the adinissiOn of French produce or manufac tures, might amount to a prohibitory, duty on the ggiina class of commodities from other countries ; and what would be a moderate charge on the latter, would be diminished on- the former, so as scarcely to yield any produce, In .short, so long; as Hayti raises a revenue on foreign trade, France may have the com mand of ha markets to the exclusion of other nations, which could supply the: same articles at a cheaper rate, or on more advantageous terms. What will England and the United States, 'which have hitherto considered •theingelves as entitled to be. considered the most favoured nations,: say to this treaty of mo nopoly and exclusion, by which they will either he driven 'lota the ports of Hayti altogether, or compelled ,to carry on their business under disad vaotagea from which they see Frenchmen exempted ? W 8 eannet help again expressing our regret that Mr. President, Boyer and his Ministers should have al lowed themselves to be so over-reached in this trans action, and should have, turned out such wretched ne gociators,, after having displayed such considerable Skill in government.. Hayti has been free for the last twenty-tw9 years, while,France has been ineffectually claiming: its submission,, and it has now only become ens l ave d, when France has. declared it independent. It could carry on . , an equal 'commerce with all the • world when is reputed colony s, it must pay indemni ties and grant ~ exclusive privileges when proclaimed a Sovereign' State. It has contracted to pay 6,000,000/. st a erling:.f9F,he sap of liberty, and, when it puts it on, it only finds that its counnerchd intercourse is re strained, and its commercial bondage renewed.--Ibid. 'EMORNING Mr. Huskisson, observed, on Tuesday night, that of the, cotton manufacture, he believed, he might say, full two4hirds were not intended for the home market, but for the foreign market ; and, if credit grew out of demand - , the demand for our cottons abroad would give relief to our manufitcturers at home." Nov, if this be a correct statement, and no man has better means of knowing how the matter really stands, we have a pre cious exemplification of the assurance of our Land owners. A Manufacture for exportation can only sell at the ,yrice ' which.,the same miumfacture is sold by foreigners, for the price obtained abroad regulates the price at home, as no man would export if he could receive a higha price at home than he receives abroad. The modest demand of the Land-owners then „is, that the persons engaged in this great staple manufacture, forming so large a proportion of the population of the kingdom, should, while they can receive no more for their industry than foreigners, , pay twice as much for their food. To be• consistent, we should proscribe all foreign trade whatever, force our Landholders to re nounce the importation of foreign luxuries, and to con fine themselves to the produce of Britain, and as there would then probably be too many cotton-manu facturers, for the home demand, Mr. Benett, of Wilt shire, will inform us that " such persons should return to their natural occupation in the cultivation of the soil." The vine cultivation, now rendered necessary, from the exclusion of foreign wines, would find occu pation for a good many cotton-spinners and weavers. I3ut our Landholders only take as much of this. Bri tish system as suits them. They find it extremely convenient to export their corn and their beef in the shape of cotton goods, and to riot in the luxuries of every quarter of the world, at the expence of the in dustry of . the country. They talk of the Agricul turists being the best customers of the manufacturers ; but what is an agricultural country without manufac tures ? Do they envy the situation of the Polish and Russian Nobles, who are forced to export their sur plus produce for luxuries I [MORNING HERALD.] The Meeting at the City of Lordon Tavern, on Tuesday, furnishes a curious specimen of the sort of humbug which is sometimes suffered to prevail on such occasions. What must foreign countries think of the real situation of this, or of our boasted free dom, when they see a meeting convened and attended by a large assemblage of all ranks, but at which scarcely one word upon the subject, on which they are broug,ht together is allowed tO be uttered ? " Melancholy, in deed," they will say, oc must be the facts which will not bear investigation, and wretched, indeed, the state of a countrywhich cannot allow its state to be known!" This, we say, will be the natural inference, though it is far from being a true one. The real history of the silence which is enjoined upon such occasions (for this not the only one when the same summary mode of dispatch has been exhibited) we take to be, the annoyance which would be sustained by Noble, Honourable, and Reverend Lords and Gentlemen were they to hear unpleasant truths sounded in their ears in such places, and were they to find themselves involved in argument with, and perhaps out-talked by orators of a grade with which they are unaccus tomed, and would not deign to compete. Even some of the home-truths which are scarcely bear able from Lord King and Mr. 1-lume in their places elsewhere would sound quite out of place at a tavern ; or were Mr. James to arraign the Treasury Picture-dealers at such a place, the blow might be as difficult to parry as to return. But per haps it will be said that the Meeting was held for the purpose of acting, not of specifying, and that dif ference of opinion might only have tended to defeat its charitable object. But if that 'be the case, why hold any meeting at all ? The facts being known to the public, and the example set by the Sovereign himself, the subscription might as well have gone on without any meeting : but, being called, • every Man had a right to be heard at it ; and the stifling of dis cussion, while it admits, as we have pointed out, of a wrong interpretation, is calculated to, injure the cause it professes to serve. That cause, however; will not, we trust, suffer from the indiscretion or the squeamish ness of its advocates. A consequential chapgoing through a turnpike the other day, which did not fly open immediately on making his appearance, reproached the collector as a lazy fellow, cast a shilling on the ground, and taunt ingly bade bim pick it up, and fetch change. The collector picked up the shilling instanter, and count ed ninepence, which he placed •where the shilling had laid, and with a significant leer said, pointing to the spot, " There's your change, Sir." The Corinthian in vain abused and commanded : the toll-keeper stood, as Shakespeare says, " master o' th' Tiger ;" and Mr. Consequence was under the necessity of condescending to bend his noddle to mother earth, and, taking up the change, drove off in a bang-up style, with cheers from many persons who witnessed the affair.—Count, Chronicle. MELANCHOLY Loss OF A FISHING BOAT. — On Monday forenoon, as one of the Ferryden (Mon trose) fishing boats, with a crew of six men was pass ing through Lunen Bay for the former place, with a heavy sea running, and the wind blowing fresh from the N. W.: she was struck by a' sea on the broadside and swamped, when five of her crew were instantly droWned.. The situation of the boat being observed by the crew of the preventive coast guard stationed at lied Castle, they, with a praiseworthy alacrity, man ned their boat and proceeded to render assistance. Qn, reaching the fishing boat, they found her bottom up,. and one man in a state of insensibility clinging with the grasp of death to the keel (all the oth er fi ve having disappeared). They took him into their boat, , but.by the time they reached the shore the vital spark had fled, and all attempts to restore animation totally failed.-Glasgote Courier. On Sunday last, the sloop William, of Dunbar, ttruck on that dangerous reef of rocks in the Moray Frith, called Stotfield Skerries. The vessel floated ofr next tide, and sunk in deep water, a few feet of her topmast only being above the surface. She is about a mile and a half from the shore, and directly in the track of vessels going up and down the Moray Frith, so that if she does not soon break up, she may do much damage. A light erected on the Stotfield Sker ries would tic attended with great advantage, as few seasons pass without the melancholy loss of valuable lives and much property.--Edinburgh Courant. Captain Maitland, who commanded his Ma jesty's ship, the Bellerophon, when Buonaparte our rendered himself, kept a journal of the events which transpired during Napoleon's residence on b0m..1 that vessel, between the 24th of May, and. the Bth of Au gust, 1815,- which, from various causes, it has not hitherto been deemed advisable' to give to the world. Sir Walter Scott, to whom this.' extremely curi ous and inteteeting . document ,has recently .. been shown, has strongly -urged the necessity of its publi cation, as a memoir of great importance ; and Cap tain Maitland having previously obtained the sanc tion of his Majesty's government, intendi laying this extraordinary Journal before the public. 'WEST INDIES. TRINIDAD. • By his Excellency Sir Ralph James Woodford, Bart., Governor and Connander-ia-Chief in and over the said Island and its Dependencies, Vice-Admiral thereof, &c. ie. (L. 8.) RALPH JAMES WOODPORD. A PROCLAMATION.' Whereas, for the relief and satisfaction of all his Majesty's - free coloured subjects whatsoever, in the island of Trinidad, and in consideration of the representations which they have made of the manner in which certain orders and regulations bear upon persons of their condition, his Majesty has been pleased to direct that a Proclamation should be issued, revoking and rendering of none effect the following instruments or such portions of them as are hereinafter specified : It is hereby ordered, proclaimed, and declared, that from and after the date hereof, the following instruments, or such parts of them as are hereinafter specified, shall be revoked and rendered of none effect. First.—So much of the Ist article under the title " Des Alquacels" of General Picton's instructions to Commandants, of the 20th of August, 1800, as imposes the office of Alguacils ex clusively upon free people of colour. Second.--The order of the Governor in Council of the 15th of August, 1807, imposing a tax of 16 dollars upon balls given by coloured persons. Third.—The order of the Governor in Council of the 29th of November, 1804, directing " free coloured persons and slaves to retire to their homes at half-past nine o'clock at night," in so fa as relates to free coloured persons. Fourth.—The order of the Governor, in concurrence with his Assessor and the Alcaldes in Ordinary, of the 12th of September, 1810, respecting the police of Port of Spain, together with the ex planatory regulation of the 18th of the same month, except in so far as relates to slaves found in the streets at night without passes from their owners. Fifth.—The regulation of the 30th of June, 1813, establishing the fees to be received for passes in the office of the Government Secretary, in so far as it creates a distinction between those to be received from white persons, and those to be received from free coloured persons. Sixth.—An order of the superior Court, of the 3d of August, 1819, requiring parties to describe their condition in their peti tions to the tribunals. Seventh.—An order of the Governor, of the 11th of April, 1821, promulgating a schedule of fees to be charged by medical practitioners in the colony. Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the Island, at Go vernment-House in town of Port of Spain, this 6th day of January, in the year of our Lord 1826, and in the sixth year o f His Majesty's reign. By his Excellency's command, FREDERICK HAIIMET, Acting Secretary. TRINIDAD. By his Excellency Sir Ralph James Woodford, Bart., Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the said Island and its de pendencies, Vice-Admiral of the same, &e. &c. (LS.) RALPH JAMES WOODFORD. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas the several communications which have been address ed by the free people or colour in this island, to the Right Hon. the Earl of Bathurst, K.G., His Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Department of the Colonies ;—aud afterwards to His Majesty's Commissioners of Inquiry into the Administration of Justice in the West Indies ;—and also the communications which have been received by his Lordship from the Governor ;—and those which were addressed to the Commissioners by the Attor ney-General of Trinidad ;—together with various Spanish and British ordinances, all having reference to the rights and privileges claimed by that portion of His Majesty's subjects, have been brought under His Majesty's consideration. And whereas his Majesty's Commissioners have repotted their opinion to be, that according to the Royal Cedula issued by the King - of Spain on the 24th of November, 1788, the free people of colour, who, as planters and heads of families, established them selves in the island and obtained assignments of land under the authority of that Cedula, and resided fiveyears in that island, and bound -themselves to an entire residence therein, and likewise the descendants of these, are entitled to all the privileges of naturaliza tion, and in consequence are eligible to all public employments, and to posts in the militia—his Majesty has been pleased to de clare his meet gracious approval and confirmation of the said opi nion, and to signify his Royal pleasure, that the said; righti and privileges be enjoyed by those individuals and their descendants, awl the same is hereby declared accordingly. _ . And whereas his Majesty's free colOtired subjects who may have obtained . grants of land otherwise than under the authority of. die Royal Cedula of the 24th of November, 1783, are entirely excluded according to the legal construction of that Cednla, from :the benefits conferred by it; and as such exclusion is not in ac cordance with his Majesty's gracious intention towards them, it is his Majesty's pleasure, that the same rights and pri vileges which are derived by those, to whom, or to whose progeni tors, assignments of land have been made under the Cedula, shall be equally enjoyed by all free persons of colour, being gran-. tees of land, br descendants of grantees, provided that either .they or, their. parents, Separately, shall Kaye completed a twenty- . one yeirs' tcrwvf xvslilome in Trinidad, or that the number of years which their parents eollectively with the number .of years which they themselves shall have resided shall amount to twenty-one years . or more. .." Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the Island, at Government-House, in the town of Port of Spain, this bth day of January, in the year of our Lord 1826, and in the sixth year of his Majesty's reign. By his Excellency's commatuti,;., PREDERICK HAAIMET, Acting Sec. AMERICAN. S•iA.Tisrics.—There about 10,000 physicians in the United States, and upwards of 6,000 lawyerti. There are about 9,000 places of worship, and about 5,000 cler gymen. 1,000 newspapers are published. There are more than 100 steam-boats, comprising upwards of 14,000 tons, navigating the Mississippi. There are 5,000 post-offices, 80,000 miles of post-roads, and 12,000 miles of turnpike-roads. There are :3,000 - SCOTCH ENTAILS.—It appears, that previously to the Act of 1625, only twenty 7 four entails had been executed in all Scotland. The gradual progress since may be exhibited by dividing the time which has elapsed since 1685, into periods of twenty years, and stating the number of deeds which have been recorded during these respective periods Entails. From 1685 to 1705 '79 From 1765 to 1785 272 From 1705 to 1'725 125 From 1785 to 1805 860 From 1725 to 1745 158 From 1805 to 1825 479 From 1745 to 1765 188 Scotsman, Sat. April 29. SAILORS AND GLASS BOTTLE.—The reckless character of our seamen has been shown in a multitude of in .stanoes ; but the following surpasses All we ever heard of the ex traor Unary thoughtlessness, or the daring defiance of all cense quences, which are equally characteristic of this class of men : During the war, a sailor who was troubled with a cough, applied is a druggist in this town for an antidote, when he was furnish ed with a half-pint bottle of common. cough-mixture. The next morning the same individual, and-two very tall and fine young men,* his messmates, called at the shop, and asked for a similar mixture, in the same sized bottle, with which, After a few in quiries, they were accordingly furnished, and desired to observe, the label—" a spoonful at a time when the cough is troublesome." Disregarding this advice, .the two young men consulted together, and agreed to drink it off at once, "half-and-half," which was no sooner said than done, in spite of the admonitions of the man of business. When this had been accomplisherl,. and nothing was left but the empty bottle, they applied for another dose, but be-, ing refused, the following questions were put :—" All paid for I believe ?"---" Yes." " Bottle and all?"--" Yee." "Then Jack, what shall we do with the bottle?"—" Eat it," says Jack ; to the great alarm of "the druggister ;" the first mentioned instantly proceeded to demolish the bottle, cracking it with his teeth, and swallowing the pieces with as much sang froid as if , feeding on beaf-steak. When about half the bottle had disappeared, he handed the.renusinder to his companion, as "his share," who im mediately commenced an attack with his jaws, and awallowed'all but the base, which he found too lard for his grinders. - It is needless to say, that th e consternation of the worthy tradesman tvas extreme he used every means of-persuasion, and even tried force to prevent the catastrophe of the 'hottle, , but in vain; with the before-mentioned exceptions the whole was entirely con sumed, the mouth* of the sailors at the same time stream ing with useato blood,. t o w hi c h t h e y .seesned as:. indifferent as t o t h e prevent, the gratifieatim of., their -.unna tural appetitea.' --fieveral years afterwards, a tall, thin, ma elated figure, entered the chop, and ' calling, to mind. the. above circumstance, related that his conspanion Iliad perished in an hos pitel—the glass never having been ejected. frosts :his constitution; and that he, himself, lingered out his exiiitenee in it continual state of agony, which made life a burthen almost insupportable. From that time he has never been heard of; audit is natural to suppose that he also perished the victim of his thoughtless folly.—Glas. VOlO Co urier , LAW INTELLI4ENM - COURT OF CHANCERY, MAY 3. IN THE IdATTEROE SIR G. P. TURNER. Mr. HRALD stated that there were five petitions in this catt which were most pressing, for reasons the particulars of which it was not then necessary to mention. Every effort of the commit tee for the comfort and welfare of the lunatic was rendered abor tive by the interference of a person who bad applied for a traverse of the inquisition. The Learned Counsel, therefore, urged his Lordship to name a day for disposing of those petitions. Mr. SHADWILL said that the lunatic was kept in a constant state of irritation by the interference of the party alluded to by Mr. Heald. The LORD CHANCELLOR fixed Saturday next for the hearing of these petitions. His LCUIDSHIP rose at one o'clock, to attend the Recorder's re port. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY S. THE KING V. WM. HENRY ELLIS. The prisoner in this case was brought before the Court on a writ of error. He bad been convicted of petit larceny (robbing his mistress), at the last Sessions for the city of Exeter, and sen tenced to fourteen years' transportation, under the authority of the 3d Geo. IV. c. 38, sec. 2. The error assigned was, that the Session had, by sentencing the prisoner to be transported for four teen years, exceeded their authority. Mr, CHITTY, in support of the writ of error, contended, that the Court of Sessions had no power to transport such offenders for any term exceeding seven years. The benefit of clergy hav ing been taken away from the offence of which the prisoner had been convicted, he was consequently not comprehended in the class of offenders to which the provisions of the Act of the 3d Geo. IV. c. 38, were intended to apply ; and as the sentence could not be amended by the same Court that hail tried the prisoner, he was entitled to have the sentence cancelled, and be discharged. Mr. PARKE, in support of the sentence, stated the object of the 3d Geo. IV., c. 38, was to impose a severer sentence on servants robbing their masters, in cases where the law had not already im posed the severest penalties. The sentence, he maintained, was authorized by the 2d section, which directed that every such of fender, at the discretion of the Court, may be adjudged to be transported for 14 years, or imprisoned for any term not exceed ing three years. By 4th Geo. I. c. 11. the transportation for seven years of offenders convicted of any larceny, either grand or petit, was imposed in the very terms of the act under which this sentence had been pronounced; but the object of the late act was to increase that punishment, and applied only to offences of the degree of grand larceny. The sentence, he contended, might be partly good and partly bad, and cited the case of the " King v. Col- Ens," Ist Wilson, 342, where the Court held part of the sentence to be bad, but confirmed the rest. So in this instance the Crown might confirm the transportation for the first seven years, and remit the other. Mr. CHITTY having been heard in reply, The COURT directed the prisoner to be remanded in the same custody till Friday next. The Court was occupied the remainder of the day with peti tions for new trials entirely destitute of interest. This day (Thursday) being. Ascension Day, the Court will not sit. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL—A respectable looking man, named Lee thorne, was charged by two ancient guardians of the night with having, firstly, taken upon himself to teach them their duty; se condly, with being "remarkable impudent" in his said teachinc , ; thiraly, and lastly, with refusing to "be off with himself;" wherefore they took him to the watch-house, and thence to the Compter, and here he was to give an account of himself before the Alderman. • Mr: Leethorne, in his defence, replied, that he ought to have been complainant, instead of defendant, in this case, inasmuch'as he had been grossly maltreated by these guardians of the night merely because he had ventured to claim their protection. He was passing through Long-lane on his way home, he said, when he was seized by one of those Amazonian strumpets who abound in that quarter. She seized him, and attempted to drag him to her den—or more gallantly speaking, to lead him to her bower," and he having a particular abhorrence for "such cattle," repeatedly desired her to let go her hold ; but the more he desired her to loose him, the more she held him fast. He therefore called for assistance to one of these same watchmen, who had stood within a few yards of them, on the opposite side of the street, the whole time; but he refused to interfere, alleging that the spot where they stood was " out of his beat." However, when the woman heard him call out so lustily for assistance, she thought proper to relin quish her hold upon him, and he then went over to the watchman to remonstrate with him on the impropriety of his conduct, and inquire his number, in order to ledge a complaint against him ; but the watchman would neither, listen to his remonstrance, nor tell him his number ; and, upon his persisting, the rattle was sprung, the other watchman came up, and he was dragged' along to the watchhouse with such Violence that his coat, shirt; and neckcloth were torn, and his person much bruised. Mr. Alderman Cox, who sat for Sir Richard Carr Olyri, 'im mediately discharged him, and recommended him to procetid against the watchmen for the assault and false imprisonment. One Mrs. Mary Brown was charge with having stolen di vers articles of wearing apparel, the property of a Mrs. Sarah Crawley._ _ . Mrs. Crawley is a country matron, who, being " as ladies wish to be who love their lords," has recently come up to London to take the benefit of some one of those obstetric charities with which this metropolis abounds; and in the mean tim e , s h e t o ok up.her residence in the house f Mrs. Winterton, who gave her this Mrs. Mary Brown for a bed-fellow.—" I never had no sus picion that Mrs. Brown was any thing but honest," Continued Mrs. Crawley, until last Monday morning, when I missed a la ce cap and frill, two pair of white cotton stockings, and one elastic chemise." And pray what sort of an article is an elastic chemise?" in quired Mr. Alderman Coi. " Your Worship," replied Mrs. Crawley—" it is a garment which some people call a flannel ;" and hiving given this ex planation, she said she bad no doubt all these things were stolen by Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Brown, on her part, declared, she bad never touched them. She - was just come from Portsmouth to see for a service in town, she said, and she would " scorn the action." Mrs. Crawley, in reply, cleclared that the things could not go without hands; and as no other person, except Mrs. Brown, had been in the room, it followed, of course, that Mrs. Brown's hands must have taken them, especially as she had more than once ex pressed her wish to have an elastic chemise. On one occasion, too, she not only stopped out all night, but she came home quite tipsy the next morning ; so that they bad no doubt she was " going into the unfortunate girl line," instead of seeking for any honest service, and they thought it highly probable that she had taken the elastic chemise and the other things, as stock to begin with. • Under these circumstances Mrs. Brown was detained, in order to give time for inquiry, after the elastic chemise, &c. at the' ,pawnbrokers. BOW-STREET. ---Byre Beano, Esq., an eminent merchant at tiverpoolovas brought up by Taunton, charged with intend ing to fight a duel with Mr. Thomas Robert Richmond, also a merchant at the same place. It appeared that the two gentle Men quarrelled on 'Change at Liverpool, and Mr. Richmond applied the .epithet scoundrel to Mr. Evans, upon which the latter knocked him down. A chal lenge ensued, but the meeting was prevented, and they were both held to bail. It was . subsequently agreed to meet at Dieppe to settle the affair, but information being sent to this office, Mr. Evans was arrested on his way through London, with his intend.. ed second, Colonel Barton, of Chester. Mr. Evans was held to bail in heavy sureties. Yesterday a tall young Irishman, named William Little, was brought before Mr. Minsuutd. and Mr. liau.s, by Ledbitter, on a warrant, charged with sending threatening letters to Rowland Alston, Esq. of Harley-street, Cavendish-square, a Magistrate for Middlesex. The defendant, it appeared, had liVed for a considerable time in the service of Mr. Alston, es footman, and conducted hiinself, generally speaking,. with propriety; but he had the misfortune (for such: it was in his case) to possess rather a pleasing voice, opinionand Eu had way, 7 th a e s fe constantly tily, he rP.riolnet his qwa, sometimest l i c e e in choosing in h l et i h e sie l 4 v g o r u an ii a g s t etannoyafrcet ofhaen Hours for practice, as constantly boasting, that if he 'could once make h i s - powtei r i s e k tid : t i ti s io n ea , tar li (ci e :il id: ,l o li u fo l r i - I l ide r: o pe ul ed d iblyu'trhiseavetosocroop_i often say to ftt toh f eS e mt :h ua i sn l l irting;;Veks Mr. K,emble, or Mr. Elliston, or Tom Cooke, or ,0K:0 1 1 1 4Fi1g444 . 4 1 040-jusb Olive them a sped „„‘,/, o f my powerful pretensions to public favour, how glad would they at Moe te'patronize nie; and - bting me, in time, before a London audience. TO be sure I have not the power. of Brahani, but then I know I har.i all the kweetileft of Sinclair; and could I but have tin means of cultivating my talent, what a great man I c ,4eorni little time." ."Loril, Susan, unil tike Other servants, who 'did all they could to discourage his " why, you are singing and music mad, sure—a'n't ton Yon sing a fair song etough, to be Eire, to please the 11k. of us ; but you'll Defter do for the playhouse, depend upon it." William,, however, was not to be "-damned with feeble praise;" end he went on singing almost from morning till night, and la menting the want of opportunity' to bring himself into noting. At length, about twelve months ago, he left the service of 'Mr. Alston, who, notwithstanding the defendant's folly in one par ticular, had a very good opinion of him, and gave him 51. over and above his wages, when be went away. The defendant re ceived a good character from Mr. Alston, and soon procured another situation, - but he did not keep it long ; the " stage stricken hero" could not endure the vile drudgery of a footman's life for any length of time, and he gave up his place in disgust. From that moment he began to tease Mr. Alston with letters, soliciting his patronage and influence in getting him brought upon the Metropolitan Stage, and occasionally requesting pecte, niary assistance. Mr. Alston, of course, soon got tired of, notic ing these applications, and then the defendant commence d setite ing in a different strain, hinting that, unless his demands were complied with, he should disturb the peace of Mr. Alston's familf most materially. In addition to several letters, containing evert planer threats than this, he wrote to a gentleman in Groove**. square, a particular friend of Mr. Alston's, statingi that- bei should be sorry to create confusion and dismay in the family the latter gentleman, but be should feel himself obliged to do so unless he came forward, and lent him his influence and support. He want.d, he said, first of all, to procure a provincial 03P' ment, and Mr. Alston ought to supply him with 501. to suPpnrt him decently until he could be ushered to the London boards. At length his threats became of so unequivocal a nature, that Mr. Alston thought it necessary to seek protection from the law against the meditated violence of the defendant, and a warrant was issued from this office for his apprehension. The defendant, in answer to the charge, repeated all the non sense before mentioned, about his great yeas] powers, the loss the public would sustain if he were not brought forward, and the ob ligation there was upon Mr. Alston to do all he could to promote. his views. It did not at all appear what possible obligation of that Ari k . in m d i t N h s e i r i e ui. co L u as ld k b e e d uthpem de f endant Alr .Alstifonh had any friends, and Alston. be replied in the negative. .He had no relations in thiworlde. He was born at Waterford. He did not r e m e mber hisliAther antf mother. He did not know when or wh e r e they died, or if they e were dead. He did ,riot, know when he left Ireland. Ile knew he was an Irishman, because be was born in Ireland. AU the defendant's answers were evidently evasive, and he' evinced, from the beginning, an obstinate determination to avoiff satisfying inquiry. He went on to say, that Alr. Alston had IP( nied that be possessed any qualifications for the theatrical stage/ but had pronounced him to be exceedingly well adapted for the' prize-ring, and had offered to back him if he should fight. Mr. Alston laughed, and declared that he had never said sal such thing. • Mr. Miestwee earnestly ecdeavoured..to convince t h e foolish fellow that he was labouring under a delusion , but it wa s in vain, and he was ordered to find hail ; Mr. Minshull observing, that, in consideration of the defendant's situation in life, be should only _ • call upon him for his own recognizance in 401. and two suede iu 20/. each, to keep the peace. The defendant said, the Magistrate had no business to take his; situation in life into consideration at all; if his threats were 0 1 such a nature as to be considered dangerous to the public peen the law ought to take its course. He should not attempt .to gel bail; he should rather choose to endure imprisonment. He was taken away and locked up. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—llieirwaY Roantalr.—Yell: terday, Jeremiah Child, James Price, and J. Goodwin, Pri vates belonging to the 2d Regiment of Guards, were charged with a highway robbery. Mr. Thomas Wayne, of Duke -street, Bloomsbury, the pawn whom they had robbed, deposed to his acquaintance with hild, and of being in company with him arid the other prisonere at the Black Lion public-house, Bloomsbury, on Tuesday night. Wh en , he le ft the house, preceded by Child, he was instansly laid hold o f by the other two, pulled down, and his watch and some silvur taken from him. • A watchman swore to seeing Mr. Wayne on the ground.. lies d parties quarrelling, and a girl exclaiming', M'Gregor, patrole, passing a brothel in George-street , he, e 7 I'll tell about the watch." In consequence of hearing this, he e , tered, and took the prisoner Price, and he ultimately succ es,c a ea in securing the other two. He found the watch in the possean of Goodwin. watch. Goodwin said Wayne was drunk, and gave bin' the Mr. Wayne denied this. Price and Child declared their innocence. and be was Mr. Wayne believed Child completely innocent, consequence discharged.—Goodwin and Price were cominatvn " If you don't hequ e i 1,1 ME '."'~-- uni. , 3i,tir 13; . ' LONDON DIARY,..§ 4IIII-- Y. 17 .t N he G eo S urt O o F ccotri Ci i i n .1. Manger, Great Surrey-stre.et, Blacklriars - ro ad, at 11 ' S. 'Williams, I, insbury-square, at 11. E. Wilford, Boston, Lincoln, at 1. J. Williams , jun., Fenchurch-street, at 10. " • J. Crosthwaite, Fenehurch-street, at 11. T. Dornford, Philpot-lane, at 11. J. Burrows, Bond-street, Vauxhall, at 10. W. C. Wright, Paternoster-row, at 11. -'.. Seward, Bullo-pill, Newnham, Gloucester, at 11. 11. J. W. Shaw and A. W. Elnislie, Fenchurcb- building's, at - EigspionieTmons. COUNTRY DIARY, MOTiDAY, MAY B. „, • ' if. Capper, Liverpool, at the . George Liverpool, lit I. T. Groom, Brinton, Norfolk,' at the Angel Inn, Norwich, at*. I T. Jennings, Canterbury, at the Guildhall, Canterbury, at g, • J. Pickrin, Lyticorobe, Somerset, at the Ilumnier Taver3o°4' tub at 2. T. Pointon, Manchester, at the Star Inn, Manchester, at 9. J. Goulden, Methley, York, at the Court Itouse, Leeds, at 11• S. youlger and B. Havers, Norwich, at th'e Bowling Grecnloo Manci:oft, at 5. J. Hill, Manchester, at Whites Hotel, Manchester, at 9. J. Braman, Ashton-under-Line, Lancatter, at the White Manchester, at 10. • 1. Robson, Charlton-row, Manchester, at the Star, at B. -A-rana, ester, CORN BXCHAN6E, iIIAY 3. ---The proceedings in Parliament touching the release o f tt . Bonded Corn and Flour in warehouse on p am ent of date kis, for the moment . , completely:suspended all operations, ° f our market, where we have no business whutcver doing, 4o l. course nothing but a nominal currency ; a decline in Pr ices i s ; however, very generally anticipated. The following Is the Is, of duties:—On IVheat, 125.. per (Platter ; Rye, lieW , P ` i r l t Peas, Bs. per qr. ; Barley, per qr. ; Oats, 4s. Flour, 3s. 2d, per cwt. • . ARRIVALS.. English Wheat 3,435 Qrs. irish Oats - 6,230 go' --- Barley 550 Foreign %%Meat 1,/iOO Barley t2OO --- Oats 5,000 ----:- Oats 5,901) Beans --- Enflisli Flour 5,410 Pe.tse • - • • reat Alter a ti ons proposet.her: ANOTHER REroni , ....;.Tho to the Corn Trade by his 51ajesty's Minhhivetera, hive exc ited the deepest interest.; and on ....rs , tlay.(‘V.ednesday), whe n 'li r , usually expect no trade, the case has hr , - , •,!pletelyreve r° There was a very large,attentianes • t hi s inorrliuf: but up to a late hour no busineits r, T o wards er close of the market several' kolders.; :Aar. • r e t the tier clii• tion which sonic factors look for, ofrerTri •,t mit reductiol' of 2s. to 3*. per quarter ; and Oats at :1 r similar deel i j but his to be observed thero were few or sellers that w) accept of lower prices; we cAt:not, then . . .zare itny . C . l °. ; ( sl reduction in our corn mark e t ; thwgintr, Lit voin in grin! i ,, in London is estimated a t 140.000 quarti:r.. the Fart., Grain there were no sales whateverots the 11,1,ters were a great advance on thrformenntavirtal prices. ()OA I, MAIikET, 1%1 Ai - A d aieg , 31g—Dettn's Ptimt- :19 rdsS:LF, Main, 1-'7 4 6d ": - lis ason,34a 6.1.-- flebbnrn Alaitr,t4 IJuiy Main, 28s 6d—Ord's 1174—'Pelatv, 31s eds-sikal i t, r ` IVintlaor, 211 a 11d—l'antield Moor, 2llr fid-2.Townley, 3 1)3 34a-11'ylarn, 3la 6tl-441,1Tialla End Bewicke 81 ; Co. 36:1 6d—Walla End .13r0;v07#442*(iti--Al r alls End Greco!, 30a 2d-.-Virally End Itidtivil'a.,3ss—lValla End II abs P i ! —Small Coal, 168-I..ambton small, lOs 'l'anfield Trader , a.n —C°wyeili 29a-01 1 M, 3!s—Particy, 31,-.—Stone Coal Cr?'" tie, 4:al—Walls End OM Neglig in lat'rr' s " :13a 6d—Walis End H. t. End • Ida ° 33s 9d—Vlralla End 37;4 61-Ittisselrs Walls End, 37a tnarkfit, 4r ' iPg g °lll ' —Unsold, 17. j. to O !i, r) STotrlerestyl,ayt,hethiead BIRTII. •f -________;__.:_;r_iti,—.4.;•—••-- 2 y d of in r s l t iti , o t r i: ol l! r On the 211th ,at Ilianl4- l i ' ° V n ig: lll i 4°. InfulAry, to Elizabeth, 1t114 , 1;44f P'. 4 . Collins, r‘sq, of thetiant`e Printa 4 anti ; Published by M. YOIING, at the. SiiK 61°1°1 Yu. 112, Straild.